[posted this on reddit, too] When I was a teenager, a long time ago, when there was one phone per floor and it was on a long ass cord so you could take it into

[posted this on reddit, too] When I was a teenager, a long time ago, when there was one phone per floor and it was on a long ass cord so you could take it into any bedroom in the house... I got a call from Harlan Ellison. At 2am. I was a awake, but everyone else in the house was asleep. Including the person he wanted to talk with. Martin H. Greenberg and family were staying at my parent's house, because Martin was going to some SciFi convention in Lake Tahoe. I guess Harlan wanted to talk about that. I mentioned that it was 2am and everyone was asleep, but he said "wake him up." I did! Same trip, I got to drive Martin to Robert Silverberg's house (in Oakland). I took a bunch of my Silverberg books and he signed them. Got to shake his hand, be intimidated by his very large dogs, and longly look at his very young and beautiful girlfriend. She was probably a few years older than me. He had to be 50+ then, I'd guess. That was a good summer.